This is why we fly

[Venturous Randy]

This could also be titled "faith".

RandyA

 

http://www.wimp.com/perspectivequeenstown/

[Caveman]

Gave me the hee b gee bees but that was awsome! Thanks!

[Snaggletooth]

Very cool video. Thanks for the link.

 

From my Droid wherever I may happen to be at any given moment.

[Mike G in SC]

One of the more enjoyable commercial flights I took was a puddle jumper from Columbus to Cincinnati. It was flat clouds like that with periodic cloud mountains.

 

The pilot kept it at about 100 feet above the layer and it was like a snow ride. As he got towards Cinci I could see a big hole in the clouds that other planes, then us spiraled into, then down to land. Looked like bees headed home in the late sun.

 

I don't think any of the other dozen on board paid any attention, except me and the pilot.

[JohnT]

It's an entirely different world above the clouds. I hope to see it for real one day before I go .

[mbrood]

It's really a demo tape for the latest GPS mapping/guidance system that is becoming such a standard. It reads your airplane type, airspeed, altitude and direction and when you put in a destination it provides a "safe highway" to land when you get in that strips "control area". Clouds and fog aren't an issue and all ground obstacles are calculated... so the pilot basically sees a "tube" that he stays in which takes him down to pattern, downwind leg and onto final. It's fairly intensive mapping requirements are only opening up fairly substantial strips after full mapping is insured, but it will continue to grow. Another step to pilotless carriers probably.

[Eck]

Yep, love flying too...beautiful world we live in for sure!!

Thanks for sharing.